Originally Posted by
happiest_at_40000
HI, completely inexerienced EK flyer here but did just get to experience CGK-DXB-LAX in F over summer and it was wonderful. I racked up 26K miles for the flight as well as 45K bonus miles for some issues on the plane (my IFE glitched out through the whole flight and one of my shades didnt close. Lovely cabin manager gave me a bottle of Dom P1 and got me these miles (as I had not complained or told EK anything).
Anyways..... what can I do with 71K miles is my question... I see thats nearly exactly what I need for an east cost to DXB upgrade. However, the outright J buy for that route is really expensive. My outright F buy for my summer flight was less than J on east cost to DXB.
I was looking over some pricing and seems like CGK to MXP is $1500 in J. If I were to buy that how does the upgrade process work with it being 2 diff legs? Any idea how much EK will want for each of those legs?
Thanks
EK F is fantastic so welcome!
You can calculate the necessary miles here
https://www.emirates.com/us/english/...es-calculator/
The short answer is that both legs will need to be available to upgrade to get the end to end price; otherwise, you will pay for whichever leg is available. If the other leg becomes available, you'll need to call EK to fix things so you get the end to end price as opposed to the sum of each one (which will be more). I haven't done this but others here have and you can look for posts by
thijsseh who wrote about this multiple times.